By Ted Hesson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is asking companies to submit proposals for how they would provide round-the-clock services to transport immigrant detainees from Texas jails to ICE custody, documents published this week showed, a move that could speed up deportations and free up ICE officers.

ICE is seeking a contractor who can ferry suspected immigration violators from Texas jails to three dozen ICE facilities, according to a request for information posted on a government contracting website on Tuesday. The contractor would need to set up a transportation hub near each of Texas’ 254 county jails and be staffed to pick up immigrants at the jails within 30 minutes, the document said.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and ICE did not res

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